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From: D Maclure

April 11, 2015

Dear Brent McAnulty,

I meant any TV programmes that stopped caption due an unspecified reason within Deaf and Hearing impaired communities should have deserved to answer since was under TVNZ Access at that time prior to Able took-over responsibilities because we should not understand why some TV programmes stopped captioned beyond knowledge among them for example after first series went to air was captioned then after second series appeared stopped using caption. That the reason we have not been advised without gave specified reason led to withdrawing caption on some TV programmes.

I have acknowledged with concerned among the member of the Deaf community since 2000, also there was no advisory notices were posted on teletext which has now since discontinued.

There has been frustrated within the Deaf communities for years, as requested for OIA be part of historical research so this gave us a better understanding.

From: Brent McAnulty
Television New Zealand Limited

May 12, 2015

I think you are saying that sometimes a new series is not captioned when the previous series has been.

This doesn't happen often, but it can occur when a series is first played in prime-time, but then the subsequent series are shifted to a late timeslot, which we don't tend to caption. Our focus is usually on prime-time content.

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